Ryanair to create 460 jobs at East Midlands airport
Low-cost airline Ryanair is to create 460 new jobs at East Midlands airport next year.
The Dublin-based carrier will add a total of nine new routes from three of its airports, flying an extra million passengers next year.
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Two of the new routes will fly from East Midlands - to Marseille and Menorca.
Manchester and Liverpool airports will also benefit from the expansion, with 1,000 jobs created in total.
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Chief executive Michael O’Leary warned earlier this year that the airline was braced for a difficult winter as austerity measures and the eurozone crisis hit demand.
The carrier reported a 29% drop in underlying pre-tax profits to 99 million euro (£77.5 million) in the quarter to June 30 as a 27% rise in fuel costs took its toll.
The airline is due to report its half-year results on November 5.
Comments
by Flandrian
Thursday, November 01 2012, 10:01AM
“So not only has the figure dropped to 150 jobs, that's for the full 9-route expansion across Liverpool, Manchester and EMA. In yesterday's article, Ryanair were claiming 1,000 jobs from the expansion, so that has quickly been reduced by 85%.
Of those 150 new jobs, 'it is not clear how many will be at EMA'.
The ACI research that Ryanair relied on for yesterday's press release was carried out in 1998 and averaged the ratio between passenger numbers and jobs across the whole of Europe, where there are large variations in productivity.
By 2001, the jobs-per-passenger figure had fallen by 5% (in just 3 years) as a result of cost reduction measures and the development of no-frills carriers. That the no-frills, low service, operators drag the job creation figures down is hardly startling news. That a no-frills operator uses a 14-year-old, pre-no-frills-boom, ratio to hugely misrepresent the true jobs creation position is plain dishonesty. IMHO of course.”
by D99WR
Thursday, November 01 2012, 8:29AM
“So now the Post has discovered that yesterday's story is like the 'low cost' airline issue - somewhat disconnected from the truth. It's now 150 jobs......
Tomorrow ?”
by FormerlyW
Wednesday, October 31 2012, 10:46PM
“That's because you don't understand the way Ryanair-speak works, Flandrian: when they say they are creating jobs "at" East Midlands, they actually mean that they are creating them somewhere within a couple of hundred miles of East Midlands, with a bus service that may or may not get you there by midnight...”
by Neo_MadBadger
Wednesday, October 31 2012, 1:54PM
“On the one hand, it may seem unlikely that 460 jobs will be created from 2 new routes at EMA out of a total of 1,000 jobs over 3 sites and a total of 9 new routes. However, it could be that the planes will be 'quartered' at EMA with the attendant maintenance jobs etc that that would entail. Just sayin'...”
by Flandrian
Wednesday, October 31 2012, 1:14PM
“Hang on - they're adding 2 flights per week from East Midlands Airport, and that creates 460 jobs ?????? I'd love to see those figures substantiated. It looks like a load of PR-wash.
NEP, do your journalists ask any questions or just publish the press release ?”
by Neo_MadBadger
Wednesday, October 31 2012, 12:50PM
“It would not surprise me if the next wheeze is to give passengers a £1 discount if they help to inflate the aeroplane's tyres using their own breath just prior to take-off.”
by altheboss
Wednesday, October 31 2012, 12:38PM
“I wouldn't fly Ryanair if they were the last Airline on earth.!”
by D99WR
Wednesday, October 31 2012, 12:33PM
“This is not a low cost airline, it is a prime mover in obfuscation of the actual price you will have to pay, and even then charge you to pay it.”